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- Emperor Justinian and his court - Mosaic of San Vitale, in Ravenna
- Rome dominating the world.
- Street and apse of Saints John and Paul, in Rome
- Philippe le Bold, son of Saint Louis, after his tombstone
- Philippe de Valois, after his seal
- Ruins of Gaillard castle
- Saint Louis, after a wooden statuette from the Cluny museum
- Anglo-Norman knight, after a tomb from 1277
- Seal of Henri Plantagenet
- The Lord of Joinville, dressed in his coat of arms, from a 14th century manuscript
- Seal of Henry I
- A Bishop
- The Krak Castle. Current state
- Emperor Otton III, after a miniature from the Evangelist of Bamberg
- Seal of Celestin III, like the apostles
- Chair of the Ninth or Tenth Century
Chair of the Ninth or Tenth Century, taken from a Miniature of that period (MS. de la Bibl. Imp. de Paris). The chairs or seats of the Romanesque period exhibit an attempt to revive in the interior of the buildings, where they were used, the architectural style of contemporary monuments. They were large and massive, and were raised on clusters of columns expanding at the back in three semicircular rows. - Ornate page from the Evangéliaire de Saint-Vaast
- Seal of the municipality of Fismes
- Crown of Charlemagne, kept in the imperial treasury of Vienna
- Qala'at El-Hosn
Qala'at El-Hosn - According to Viollet-le-Duc
- Schokacz Types
Schokacz Types - Crossing the Weir—Rottenacker
Crossing the Weir—Rottenacker - Building a House in Servia
Black Forest Cow Team - Spectators
Spectators watching us set up camp - 10th century castle, on its mound, with a wooden palisade enclosure
- Black Forest Cow Team
Black Forest Cow Team - Turkish Flat-Boat
The river life was mostly confined to the larger craft; very few small boats were seen, and almost no fishermen. The great clouds of canvas on the Turkish vessels gleamed above the trees behind the islands far in the perspective, and the black smoke of tow-boats with their trains of loaded lighters was a constant feature in the ever-changing landscape. Occasionally a huge flat-boat of the roughest build, piled high with a cargo of red and yellow earthen-ware, melons, sacks of charcoal, and other miscellaneous merchandise, floated down in the gentle current, steered by Turks in costumes of varied hue, the whole reflecting a mass of glowing color in the stream. - An 11th century knight, after the Bayeux tapestry
- Servian Women
Servian Women - Gossips, Hundsheim
At the post-office, where we went to buy our first Hungarian stamps, the gossiping old postmaster and his wife—characters not unfamiliar in the rural offices in other countries—were so overwhelmed by the extent of our requirements and the number of our letters that the wheels of official machinery refused to work at all. After they had carefully read all the addresses, and had marvelled long at the range of our correspondence, we succeeded in communicating to their dazed senses the fact that we wanted to buy a stock of stamps of various denominations. - Dredging the Delta
Dredging the Delta - Wildenstein
Ruins of castles crown almost every prominent summit, and the scenery grows wilder and more beautiful at every bend of the river. Kallenberg, Wildenstein, Wernwag, Falkenstein, and a half-score of other ruins, equally wonderful in situation, tempted us to sketch them, and we found the most delightful spots imaginable wherever we paused and exchanged the paddle for the pencil. - Our Guard
“Our Guard,” Servian Militia Camp - Laplander on Snow-runners
They have caps on their heads, and fishermen and herders may be distinguished by the style of these. Fishermen’s caps are pointed, while those of herders are square. In going out over the snow in winter, Lapps have long, narrow runners of wood fastened to their feet, and carry a pole in their hand. These runners are five feet or more in length, and only a few inches wide, and on them—aided by their poles—the Lapps glide along finely over the hard snow. - Good evening, gentlemen, evidently you were not expecting me
The King, remarked with the utmost composure: “Gentlemen, follow me. I am no stranger here.” Thereupon he rode to the left over the drawbridge leading to the castle, followed by a few of his officers. He had hardly arrived at the castle entrance when several Austrian officers and attendants, with lanterns in their hands, ran down the steps and made an effort to get to their horses in the castle yard and escape under cover of the darkness. The King, dismounting, quietly confronted them and said: “Good-evening, gentlemen. Evidently you were not expecting me. Is there no room left for me?” It would have been easy for them to have overpowered Frederick if they had had the courage, but the suddenness of his appearance and the confident tone of his voice so completely dazed them that they took the lanterns from the hands of their attendants, lit the King up the stairs, and escorted him to one of the finest of the rooms. The most distinguished of the Austrian officers introduced his comrades to the King, by name and `rank`, and all joined in agreeable conversation. During this time more Prussian officers arrived at the castle, fearing the King might be in danger; but they found him enjoying himself mightily. He finally took leave of the Austrian officers, however, and they sought quarters in other rooms of the spacious castle. - Map of Europe, 500 A.D.
Map of Europe, 500 A.D. - A Haymaker
A Haymaker - A Little Girl of Hainburg
A Little Girl of Hainburg - The Saint-Martin church, in Canterbury, founded by Saint Augustin
- Divining Rod
I believe that the imagination is the principal motive force in those who use the divining rod; but whether it is so solely, I am unable to decide. The powers of nature are so mysterious and inscrutable that we must be cautious in limiting them, under abnormal conditions, to the ordinary laws of experience. - Positions of the Hands on Divining Rods
From “Lettres qui découvrent l’Illusion des Philosophes sur la Baguette.” Paris, 1693 - Donaueschingen Girls
Donaueschingen Girls - Peasants of the Delta
Peasants of the Delta - Bulgarian Bozaji, Belgrade
Even the hissing of frying fat in the numerous cook-shops seemed hushed for the time; the vender of kukurutz (green corn on the ear) slept in a shadow; and the Bulgarian bozaji, selling slightly fermented maize beer, alone broke the drowsy silence with his mournful cries. - The Bell tower
The Bell tower, Lauingen. - A Gypsy Girl
A gypsy girl lights a gypsy mans cigarette - A Hungarian Ferry
A Hungarian Ferry - Bulgarian Buffalo Cart
Bulgarian Buffalo Cart - An Ark-boat
An Ark-boat - Country Market-boat, Budapest
Country Market-boat, Budapest - Interior facade of the old St. Peter's Church in the Vatican
- Moldavian Peasants
Moldavian Peasants - Chaining of Books
The system of chaining, as adopted in this country, would allow of the books being readily taken down from the shelves, and laid on the desk for reading. One end of the chain was attached to the middle of the upper edge of the right-hand board; the other to a ring which played on a bar set in front of the shelf on which the book stood. The fore-edge of the books, not the back, was turned forwards. A swivel, usually in the middle of the chain, prevented tangling. The chains varied in length according to the distance of the shelf from the desk. The bar was kept in place by a rather elaborate system of iron-work attached to the end of the bookcase, and secured by a lock which often required two keys—that is, the presence of two officials—to open it. To illustrate this I will shew you a sketch of one of the bookcases in Hereford Cathedral. - A Lady at Play
The court of France was, at this period, the most depraved in morals, the grossest and most unpolished in manners, of any in Europe. The women of the bourgeoisie, envious of the great ladies, called them dames à gorge nue; and the latter retaliated by designating the women of the people as grisettes, because of their gray (grises) stockings,—a name retained almost down to the present day. In the sittings of the États Généraux, the President, Miron, complained bitterly of the excesses of the nobility, the contempt for justice, the open violences, the gambling, the extravagance, the constant duels, the "execrable oaths with which they thought it proper to ornament their usual discourse." - The Western Mediterranean, 800-600 B.C.
The Western Mediterranean, 800-600 B.C. - A Family Wash
A Gypsy family washing in the river - Peasant Girl of the Black Forest
Peasant Girl of the Black Forest - In Sunday Dress, Monostorszég
In Sunday Dress, Monostorszég - Suger, after a stained glass window from Saint-Denis